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Alternate Encoding for INSPIRE Data: GeoJSON issues #36

Closed nmtoken closed 5 years ago

nmtoken commented 5 years ago

Is it correct to say:

The GeoJSON format differs from other GIS standards in that it was written and is maintained not by a formal standards organization, but by an Internet working group of developers.

Certainly that's how it started, but now it has been formalised as an IETF internet standard. IETF describe themselves as: The IETF is the premier Internet standards organization.

Default CRS is WGS 84

We shouldn't say it is WGS 84, but rather that it uses it, as per the standard...

a geographic coordinate reference system, using the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) [WGS84] datum, with longitude and latitude units of decimal degrees. This is equivalent to the coordinate reference system identified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) URN urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC::CRS84.

(or http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84)

We should perhaps add it is not the same as EPSG:4326

nmtoken commented 5 years ago

But no change to the WGS84 comment, really to avoid confusion we should say it is lon/lat, just as they say in WFS 3.0 issue on the matter https://github.com/opengeospatial/WFS_FES/issues/65, as opposed EPSG:4326 which is WGS84 lat/lon, not just link to the definition